Sorry that I did not respond earlier, PFloyd. I have been involved in a design project that has taken up all of my time for the past 3 months.
I have the DCR-HC96. I shoot widescreen and don't have all of the default settings, but at the moment, I can't remember which ones that I have changed. I did use a lot of the defaults.
I am sorry, but I don't have time now to even look at my settings. :( Let me know which settings that you want to change, and I will look to see what I have mine at.